2024-01-09 20:19:03 ¶ ●

The scene where Margot tells Hannibal and Will she’s pregnant: Obviously, this is a very private detail and I do not even know why Hannibal was involved in this conversation in the first place, but Will and Hannibal, putting aside talks of murder and cannibalism and god, still have limits right? Will tells him he kissed Alana, but are they really the type of people who’d talk about sex? I think someone has to initiate it, especially after Hannibal has truly revealed himself to Will. So all of a sudden, here is Margot, telling Hannibal that Will and her had sex and she is PREGNANT with his child. That is SO private it’s gross. It’s giving me the creeps. These two fine gentlemen (in their own ways) don’t discuss sex. Their conversations are sanitised, they are poets, not rappers.

But then, Will considers Margot’s duplicity and, angry, betrayed once more despite all his knowledge and wisdom, he turns to Hannibal and asks: “Did you know?”

And to me, that is even more intimate than the sex in the scenes leading up to this. Because the reason why Will and Hannibal talk in circles and don’t discuss anything truly important (instead they make like robbers and steal information about each other, the pettiest crime being HOME INVASION from both sides) is because they can’t be vulnerable. Even though they’re, perhaps, more vulnerable than most people. Hear me out! So ANY time that Will asks Hannibal a yes or no question, and Hannibal, smitten, answers in yes or no (he promised Will his honesty despite anything), it, is, so, erotic. It is so intimate. It feels like they are naked. “What are you going on about?” You may ask, and, yes, this deserves more thought but these are all the words in English that I have for now. Some things in Hannibal can’t be viewed in isolation (in this case) and it’s only a vague piece of the bigger puzzle, but it’s something I love about Hannigram and I garishly isolate it for selfishness.